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Moff JER Chapter 14

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14 What the Eternal said to Jeremiah on the drought:--

A wail goes up from Jerusalem;

Judah is woebegone,

the citizens are cowering,

they sit in black on the ground;

the nobles send out slaves for water,

but they find none in the reservoirs,

and come back with empty pitchers,

disappointed and dumbfounded.

The farmers are aghast,

for no rain falls;

the ploughmen are dismayed

and cover their heads.

When the hind calves in the open,

she deserts her young;

wild asses stand upon the knolls,

panting for air,

their eyes are glazed,

for lack of pasture.

Who can give rain? Some false god of the pagans?

Can the skies send down showers?

Is it not thou, Eternal One, our God?

And so we wait for thee,

who doest all.

Act, O Eternal, for thine own sake,

even though our sins accuse us,

though many a time we have fallen away,

and sinned against thee.

But, O thou hope of Israel,

her saviour in an evil plight,

why be like a passing stranger,

one who stays but for a night?

Why be like a man asleep,

who cannot help?

O thou Eternal, surely thou art still among us,

surely we belong to thee;

do not forsake us!

10 But the Eternal says of this people,

“They love to go astray,

with no check on their wandering.

The Eternal is disgusted with them;

he will remember their guilt now

and punish their sins.”

11 So the Eternal said to me, “Pray not for this people. 12 I will not listen to their cry, as they fast, and I will not accept the burnt-offerings and cereals that they offer; I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.” 13 “Ah but, O Lord Eternal!” I replied, “the prophets tell them that they will never suffer from the sword nor from famine, since thou wilt give them in this place a settled peace.” 14 Then said the Eternal, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I never sent them, never gave them orders, never spoke to them; what they prophesy to you is a lying vision, a hollow superstition, a deception of their own minds. 15 This therefore is what the Eternal has to say about prophets who prophesy in my name, though I never sent them, who promise there will never be sword or famine in this country: by sword and by famine shall those very prophets perish, 16 while the people to whom they prophesy shall be flung out into the streets of Jerusalem, dead of famine and the sword, with not a soul to bury either them or their wives or their sons or their daughters--for I will pour upon them their own wickedness. 17 And you shall say to them,

Let my tears stream night and day,

never let them give o’er;

for my poor folk are broken,

wounded sore.

When I fare into the fields.

there lie the slain of the sword;

when I fare into the city,

there is the famine raging;

prophet and priest crouch on the ground,

at their wits’ end.”

Hast thou rejected Judah altogether?

Hast thou a loathing for Sion?

Why, then, hast thou struck us,

past all recovery?

We looked for peace,

but no good came;

for an hour of healing,

and here is dismay!

O thou Eternal, we confess our guilt,

and the sin of our fathers;

we have sinned against thee--

ah, abhor us not, for thine own sake,

bring no disgrace upon thy glorious throne,

break not thy compact with us, but recall it.

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